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   XPost: alt.mythology, alt.folklore, alt.religion   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   Some examples of thorns in religion, mythology, folklore and history that I   
   know of are:   
      
   1. the thorn bush of Moses   
   2. the crown of thorns of Jesus (plus the thorns around the heart of Jesus in   
   the old Catholic Sacred Heart of Jesus picture)   
   3. the piercing of hands and feet mentioned in the Old Testament   
   4. the self-sacrifice of Quetzalcoatl on thorns   
   5. the hedge of thorns that the hero has to burst through in the original   
   Sleeping Beauty story   
   6. the wall of thorns in the Pied Piper story   
   7. the “dragon-demon’s thorns” in a poem by Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth   
   Dalai Lama   
      
   Do you know of any other instances?   
      
   I suspect that the spear and tree in Havamal 138 and the boar’s tusks that   
   wounded Adonis may also have been thorns.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “Goin' away far across the sea/But I'll be back for you/I'm gonna tell   
   you everything I know/Baby, everything is true” (Van Morrison)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)